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Connie And Carla (2004)

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Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 120
Fresh: 53 | Rotten: 67

The two female leads, as well as energitic musical numbers, enliven an otherwise silly reworking of Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot.

53

Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 15

The two female leads, as well as energitic musical numbers, enliven an otherwise silly reworking of Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot.

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Actress and writer Nia Vardalos, who became an overnight sensation with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, returns to the big screen with this gender-bending comedy. Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette) are best friends who've shared the same dream ever since they were teenagers -- making a name for themselves in the musical theater. However, after years of treading water on Chicago's dinner theater circuit and playing bottom-of-the-barrel nightclubs, the two are facing middle age with minimal

PG-13, 1 hr. 38 min.

Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy

Nia Vardalos

Aug 17, 2004

$8.0M

Universal Pictures

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All Critics (129) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (68) | DVD (9)

... just awful.

April 19, 2004 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
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Isn't really a movie but a blatant girls' night out vehicle.

April 17, 2004 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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It may not be subtle, but, like drag itself, Connie and Carla affords a few corny, if artless, pleasures.

April 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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Connie And Carla never manages to rise above the airport-lounge aesthetic of its title characters.

April 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
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Someone should tell Vardalos this is well-trod territory.

April 16, 2004 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Entertaining and very funny.

April 16, 2004 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
Sacramento Bee
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The plot is nothing new; not much here for teens.

December 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

For audiences who adored "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," Nia Vardalos' follow up movie (she wrote both scripts) will come as a big fat letdown.

May 6, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

The movie does offer some genuine guffaws as it trips over itself to be all things to all people.

September 11, 2006 Comment

It really wants you to like it, but it just tries too hard and is way too freakishly cute to be watchable.

October 18, 2004 Full Review Source: Needcoffee.com | Comment
Needcoffee.com

muitos espectadores talvez julguem melhor economizar o dinheiro do ingresso do cinema, utilizando-o para comprar o CD do filme.

August 13, 2004 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | Comment
Cinema em Cena

Vardalos is a much better actress than she is a writer, and the patchy script has a desperate, thrown-together feeling to it, as if she had to scramble to come up with something after Wedding's gargantuan success.

August 8, 2004 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

Some like it lukewarm? Well, they're welcome to it.

August 5, 2004 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | Comment

A good-natured but self-indulgent camp comedy lacking in originality, character and comic timing.

June 11, 2004 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

Full marks for trying a radical change of direction, and nul points for inflicting the ghastly mess on us

June 9, 2004 Full Review Source: Times [UK] | Comment
Times [UK]

There's some fun to be had here, but not quite enough, and the film is burdened by its tired message that drag queens are human beings too.

June 8, 2004 Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | Comment

Plays like a bargain basement Some Like It Hot.

June 8, 2004 Full Review Source: BBC | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Connie And Carla

Hi-freakin-larious! And who doesn't love a cameo appearance by Debbie Reynolds?

August 1, 2007
aliceinpunderland

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Borrowing liberally from Sister Act, Victor/Victoria, Some Like It Hot and Thelma & Louise amongst others, Connie And Carla was a lot better, in my opinion of course, than the extremely bad press it got in the UK suggested. Two friends trying to make it big, but failing, with their cabaret act (they play to a

June 18, 2007
danieljparsons

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